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The following table is intended to collect and document new features, enhancements or other working areas related to the next major release AOO 4.0.

The status can be tracked highlevel for example by using the colors {highlight:green}ok/done,{highlight}{highlight:yellow}in progress{highlight}and {highlight:red}open/missing{highlight}.

More detailed description or potential specifications (as base for documentation, QA, development) should be provided on demand on linked feature sub-pages. And a corresponding Bugzilla ID should be provided for detailed tracking.

|| Component || Feature/Enhancement || Abstract || Volunteer(s) || Status || Task-ID ||
| Common | Accessibility support | integrate iAccessibiltiy2 support to improve the usability |Yin Bing | | |
| | Performance improvements for loading and saving of documents | General performance improvements, especially on document loading and saving. The content of .odt and .odp files can be displayed before the whole document is loaded. Better usability by improved application response. | Ma Yong Lin | | |
| | Property Sidebar | A user interface improvement to allow easy and fast access to manage object properties. A concept to replace or as an alternative to toolbars. Task panes are used to allow more vertical space for the document area and to make use of current common wide screen displays. |Wang Lei | | |
| | enhanced extensions manager | The extensions manager should support multiple repositories. Either via UI or via configuration only.  | jsc | | |
| Writer | Usability improvement in Ctrl+A and mouse operations in tables and sections | # The capability and usability of Ctrl+A is enhanced to make users able to select and operate tables, nested tables, or tables within sections at the top of a document through select all operation.
# The capability and usability of mouse operation is also enhanced to make users able to select and operate the tables, nested tables, or tables within sections at the top of a document through mouse to select them from the end to the beginning. |Cheng Jian Hong | | |
| Calc | XLS loading performance with multiple pivot tables | Improvements in both loading pivot table cache and in loading pivot table for the .xls files. \\
 The loading performance for .xls files with multiple pivot tables is improved a lot, especially with multiple pivot table caches. |Wang Lei | | |
| | Provide a internal framework for HPC |  The [MathMatrix Template Library|http://osl.iu.edu/research/mtl/mtl2.php3] is a high-performance generic component library inspired on STL for matrix operations.\\
 This toolkit could provide elegant operations for programmers and at the same time provide HPC capabilities within the spreadsheet.|pfg | | |
| Impress | Speaker notes support in normal view | A user interface improvement from Symphony to provide speaker notes in normal view. Users can view and edit speaker notes in normal view directly. | Chen Jin Hua | | |
| Base | Update database engine to HSQLDB 2.2.x | The present versions uses HSQLDB 1.8.0.10 version, HSQLDB 2.x.x has more features, and it is a version in development. The cwshsqldb19 which implement HSQLDB 2.x.x was finished, but not integrated into OOo 3.4Beta due to incompatibilities in database engines. The new version converts database to new format which is not usable in older version of Base. | | | |
| SDK\\ | Include ODF Toolkit\\ | Include the Apache ODF Toolkit with the OpenOffice SDK.  Also include code samples showing how the ODF Toolkit can be used with OpenOffice.\\ | robweir\\ | | |
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